Ballpark Digest
The Business of Ballparks and Baseball in Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, Indy, Summer Collegiate and College
Two moves from the summer-collegiate Coastal Plain League today: the Florence RedWolves are set to play in a new city-owned ballpark as part of a larger complex, while the Spartanburg City Council approved a return of the league to Duncan Park. (more…)
Ryan Voz is the new president/commissioner of the summer-collegiate Northwoods League, a position he’ll undertake while maintaining his role as co-owner/operator of the league’s Willmar Stingers. (more…)
We have another addition to the summer-collegiate West Coast League in 2021, as the Kamloops Northpaws will be joining the circuit and playing out of Norbrock Stadium. (more…)
More ballpark news out of Canada, where the Regina Red Sox (summer collegiate; Western Canadian Baseball League) are once again exploring the possibility of a new downtown ballpark. (more…)
Some news from the Okotoks Dawgs, as the Calgary-area summer-collegiate franchise will now host the 2021 Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) All-Star Game at Seaman Stadium, which will sport upgrades for the season as well. (more…)
Though city officials were still holding out hope that the Edmonton Prospects (summer collegiate; WCBL) would continue to play at RE/MAX Field despite awarding a lease to a competing group, President Patrick Cassidy confirmed the team would be moving a new Spruce Grove ballpark for the 2022 season. (more…)
It’s been a busy offseason for National Sports Services, first winning a bid in Lafayette (IN) for a rebuilt Loeb Stadium lease and now purchasing a Prospect League expansion team for Sargent’s Stadium at the Point in Johnstown, PA. (more…)
Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, Mick Gillispie and Kevin Reichard discuss MiLB, Arizona Fall League and spring training developments, how summer-collegiate ball could change in 2021, and how piano movers and plumbers clog the bases, on this week’s Ballpark Digest Broadcaster Chat. (more…)
The Lafayette Aviators (summer collegiate; Prospect League) will be playing in the new version of Loeb Stadium set to open for the 2021 season, in a decision announced today by the City of Lafayette and Lafayette Board of Parks & Recreation. (more…)
With Minor League Baseball shut down for the year and Major League Baseball struggling through a COVID-ridden shortened season in empty ballparks, it’s easy to think of 2020 as a lost season. But competitive baseball is still being played in front of fans in a handful of places. We visit Martinsville and Thomasville. (more…)
With a smaller field and plenty of social distancing, the historic National Baseball Congress (NBC) World Series launched yesterday at Wichita State University’s Eck Stadium. (more…)
Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, Mick Gillispie and Kevin Reichard discuss their experiences binging baseball, why cutout fans suck and the difficulties of calling a game from the studio in this week’s Ballpark Digest Broadcaster Chat. (more…)
Turtle Creek Stadium, home of the Traverse City Pit Spitters and host in 2020 of a two-team Northwoods League pod, is your winner in the Best of the Ballparks 2020 summer-collegiate fan vote. (more…)